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9/02/2006

 
Watching the Gapminder video again

If you go to:

http://video.google.com

and search for the talk people from Gapminder.org gave at Google's headquarters, you will find the video.

This video is mindblowing. The speaker, a Swedish guy, is giving insights into what gapminder.org is and what are they interested in doing.

Every once in a while he gives a sarcastic comment about politics and the effect of those politics on something as objective as the numbers of child death for a given country.

One of the brilliant things about the seminar is to see how China will be doing in the next decades. It seems like the numbers give a very bright future for Chinese. Hopefully, the other big nations, and their politicians and lobbyists, won't meddle with China.

There is also the story about Japan. It is very funny how this guy explains the way Japan found to become a prosper country after WWII, compared to the prosperity in Sweden. The Volvo versus Toyota analogy is brilliant and refreshing.

Anyway, if you are reading this and haven't seen the video yet... you should. And save a copy of it in your computer, because you will want to watch it again...


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